157 episodes

A Date With Darkness podcast discusses the impact of narcissistic abuse and other relationship wounds on your well-being. This podcast provides tips for breaking free from relationships with narcissists and other unhealthy relationship patterns so that you can begin your healing journey, reclaim your independence and sanity, feel confident and know your worth, break toxic cycles, and create the healthy loving relationships that you deserve.

A Date With Darkness Podcast Dr. Natalie Jones, PsyD, LPCC

    • Society & Culture
    • 4.7 • 118 Ratings

A Date With Darkness podcast discusses the impact of narcissistic abuse and other relationship wounds on your well-being. This podcast provides tips for breaking free from relationships with narcissists and other unhealthy relationship patterns so that you can begin your healing journey, reclaim your independence and sanity, feel confident and know your worth, break toxic cycles, and create the healthy loving relationships that you deserve.

    Self-Love After Narcissistic Abuse. The Tough Love Edition

    Self-Love After Narcissistic Abuse. The Tough Love Edition

    In this episode of the podcast, I discuss ways that you can take control of your life to start loving yourself after experiencing narcissistic abuse or toxic relationships. This includes:

    1) Stop allowing disrespect, and increase self-respect
    2) You don't need to visually see yourself getting hurt to have evidence
    3) Be prepared to enforce consequences and walk away from the relationship
    4) Stop making space for things that do not matter
    5) Manage your emotions, manage your impulses
    6) Be discerning in the information you absorb
    7) Consider taking a break from friends and family members stuck in toxic cycles











     
    Watch the video podcast on Youtube: A Date With Darkness
    Email questions or comments to Dr. Jones admin@drnataliejones.com
    Sign up for the free ebook on Red Flags in Your Relationships and the free weekly newsletter for tips about narcissistic abuse at www.drnataliejones.com
    Individual and group membership coaching sessions opening soon. Get on the mailing list to be the first to know here.
    Visit the website for more information: https://www.adatewithdarkness.com
    Let's keep the conversation going via social media:
    Instagram: A Date With Darkness
    Twitter: @Adatewdarkness
    Facebook: A Date With Darkness
    To connect with others who are seeking support from hurtful and abusive relationships please join the Facebook group: A Date With Darkness group

    • 52 min
    Destructive Intimacy Habits of Narcissists

    Destructive Intimacy Habits of Narcissists

    There are certain destructive intimacy habits that occur with narcissists. These behaviors are manipulative, deceptive, and coercive. They are meant to groom their victims for the pleasure and degradation of a narcissist.
    Watch the video podcast on Youtube: A Date With Darkness
    Email questions or comments to Dr. Jones admin@drnataliejones.com
    Sign up for the free ebook on Red Flags in Your Relationships and the free weekly newsletter for tips about narcissistic abuse at www.drnataliejones.com
    Individual and group membership coaching sessions opening soon. Get on the mailing list to be the first to know here.
    Visit the website for more information: https://www.adatewithdarkness.com
    Let's keep the conversation going via social media:
    Instagram: A Date With Darkness
    Twitter: @Adatewdarkness
    Facebook: A Date With Darkness
    To connect with others who are seeking support from hurtful and abusive relationships please join the Facebook group: A Date With Darkness group

    • 53 min
    A Study on Narcissism in the Black Community, Featuring Dr Virgil Zeigler Hill, Ph D

    A Study on Narcissism in the Black Community, Featuring Dr Virgil Zeigler Hill, Ph D

    In part 2 of the podcast with @ Dr. Virgil Zeilgler-Hill, PhD. we discuss a previous study done on rates of narcissism. He discussed possible higher rates of narcissism in the Black community, and also discussed the limitations of cultural norms on the assessment measure and the study. The implications of the study suggest the need for further studies, diversity in the panel of researchers, and further development of cultural norms on the assessment.
    Watch the video podcast on Youtube: A Date With Darkness
    Email questions or comments to Dr. Jones admin@drnataliejones.com
    Sign up for the free ebook on Red Flags in Your Relationships and the free weekly newsletter for tips about narcissistic abuse at www.drnataliejones.com
    Individual and group membership coaching sessions opening soon. Get on the mailing list to be the first to know here.
    Visit the website for more information: https://www.adatewithdarkness.com
    Let's keep the conversation going via social media:
    Instagram: A Date With Darkness
    Twitter: @Adatewdarkness
    Facebook: A Date With Darkness
    To connect with others who are seeking support from hurtful and abusive relationships please join the Facebook group: A Date With Darkness group

    • 40 min
    The Kind Narcissist and Sexual Manipulation

    The Kind Narcissist and Sexual Manipulation

    I discuss manipulation tactics that kind narcissists use to obtain sex. I also discuss how they treat you when you are being fetishized for your body. Lastly, we discuss challenges that the narcissist may have with sexuality and sexual deviancy.
    Watch the video podcast on Youtube: A Date With Darkness
    Email questions or comments to Dr. Jones admin@drnataliejones.com
    Sign up for the free ebook on Red Flags in Your Relationships and the free weekly newsletter for tips about narcissistic abuse at www.drnataliejones.com
    Individual and group membership coaching sessions opening soon. Get on the mailing list to be the first to know here.
    Visit the website for more information: https://www.adatewithdarkness.com
    Let's keep the conversation going via social media:
    Instagram: A Date With Darkness
    Twitter: @Adatewdarkness
    Facebook: A Date With Darkness
    To connect with others who are seeking support from hurtful and abusive relationships please join the Facebook group: A Date With Darkness group

    • 30 min
    Q & A: How the Narcissist May React to No-Contact

    Q & A: How the Narcissist May React to No-Contact

    In this episode, I respond to a listener question who is concerned about how a narcissist will respond to no-contact upon being released from prison.
    Watch the video podcast on Youtube: A Date With Darkness
    Email questions or comments to Dr. Jones admin@drnataliejones.com
    Sign up for the free ebook on Red Flags in Your Relationships and the free weekly newsletter for tips about narcissistic abuse at www.drnataliejones.com
    Individual and group membership coaching sessions opening soon. Get on the mailing list to be the first to know here.
    Visit the website for more information: https://www.adatewithdarkness.com
    Let's keep the conversation going via social media:
    Instagram: A Date With Darkness
    Twitter: @Adatewdarkness
    Facebook: A Date With Darkness
    To connect with others who are seeking support from hurtful and abusive relationships please join the Facebook group: A Date With Darkness group

    • 32 min
    The Kind Narcissist

    The Kind Narcissist

    In this episode, I will explore traits/actions of a kind narcissist and how they create the ultimate cloud of confusion.
    Watch the video podcast on Youtube: A Date With Darkness
    Email questions or comments to Dr. Jones admin@drnataliejones.com
    Sign up for the free ebook on Red  Flags in Your Relationships and the free weekly newsletter for tips about narcissistic abuse at www.drnataliejones.com
    Individual and group membership coaching sessions opening soon. Get on the mailing list to be the first to know here.
    Visit the website for more information: https://www.adatewithdarkness.com
    Let's keep the conversation going via social media:
    Instagram: A Date With Darkness
    Twitter: @Adatewdarkness
    Facebook: A Date With Darkness
    To connect with others who are seeking support from hurtful and abusive relationships please join the Facebook group: A Date With Darkness group

    • 25 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
118 Ratings

118 Ratings

sweetbookworm ,

You are saving lives, saving mine

Dr. Jones thank you so much for creating this podcast- just a few episodes have opened my eyes and helped me understand that danger I’m in and the abuse that I’ve tolerated and mistaken for love for too long. This podcast is giving me the courage and validation I needed (from the appropriate place) to face my truth and take action to save my own life. With what you have created here you have saved and continue to save my life. I can’t express how much it means to hear your message and have it come from a Black woman of your expertise and experience level. Thank you for what you have done for me, for I am now on the path to getting myself my life my agency and my voice back. I have a request for a future episode/ series of episodes- while what you present is so clear and easy for me to identify myself in, I’d love to hear some topics around the relationship between queerness, mysognoir, and abuse. As a Black queer womxn survivor, I’m very curious about how those intersections impact abusive relationship dynamics. This is something I’m very interested in after learning that lesbians and bisexual women/people experience abuse at rates disproportionately higher than straight women/people. Either way, you have a listener and supporter for life in me!

Grace412 ,

Guidelines

Since earlier this year, I have been binge listening to the podcast. I started at the beginning and am going in order. I just finished the episode on Quality Men. It was very insightful and informative. I was I had this early on in life to help me avoid wrong choices. We should be sharing this information starting with early teens, teenagers and young women. I especially related to the part about paying attention to when a man gets mad and his reaction. I enjoy the podcast. Please keep up the good work. You are helping us in many ways. Thank you!

Creative Allotment ,

Woweeeee!!!

I’m listening to the Misogynoir podcast with Dr. Donna and 🤯 She is such. A. Truth. Teller. Incredible podcast and discussions Dr. Natalie. I’m so excited about your possible participation in the ICCC…

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